Can Cash and Cooperation Save the Colorado River?

How Businesses, Governments, and Conservationists Can Get Water Flowing Again Throughout the Southwest

In the Southwest, even a place like Las Vegas’ Caesars Palace relies on the Colorado River, which is responsible for $1.4 trillion in annual economic activity across the region. After 15 years of drought, the hotel-casino is now saving 30 million gallons of water a year by using a car wash-like laundry to clean its linens and towels.

If river flow continues to decline, it will be an economic as well as an ecological disaster affecting everyone from the maids at Caesars to the endangered humpback chub.

In advance of …